The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) https://www.pcori.org is planning on funding high quality, comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER) projects.
Funds are available up to $50 million with total direct costs up to $10 million for a maximum project period for up to five years. The plan is to focus on different approaches to incorporate access to and use of telehealth to optimize management of multiple chronic conditions in primary care particularly among vulnerable populations.
Applications should focus on community individuals with multiple chronic conditions regarding one or more vulnerable populations of interest. Potential comparisons may include studying comparative clinical effectiveness of telehealth modalities to optimize care delivery such as utilizing telehealth to augment evidence-based models of care delivery for chronic disease management.
Comparisons can also include engaging support personnel to facilitate telehealth use (e.g., strategies involving the use of interpreters), or comparing different state level public policies regarding telehealth (e.g., regulatory changes involving payment parity across states that directly influence access to care and health outcomes). The focus should be on primary care, but studies can incorporate home-based care and include specialty care as appropriate.
Applicants are encouraged to propose multisite individual, or cluster randomized clinical trials or natural experiments are strongly encouraged to assess issues of intervention implementation with the aim to facilitate widespread uptake of findings after completion of the study. Applicants are encouraged to conduct analyses to evaluate relative clinical effectiveness by telehealth modality as appropriate such as audio only versus video.
The online system opened September 7, 2022, with letters of intent due October 4, 2022, and the application deadline is January 10, 2023. For questions regarding the funding, email sciencequestions@pcori.org